Improvement in lanterns



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Lantern.

Patented Sept. 27, 1870.

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CHURCH TABOR, OF ORAFTSBURY, VERMONT.

Letters Patent No. 107,835, dated September 27, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN LANTERNS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHURCH TABOR, of Craftsbury, in the county of Orleans and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in. Lanterns;- and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon *which form a part of this specification. l

The nature of myinvention consists in, the cou struction and arrangement of a carriage and barnlantern, which will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now'prooeed to describe its construction and operation,referring to the annexed drawings, in which- Figure lis a vertical section, and v Figure 2, a plan, showing the coupling-device.

The frameof my lantern consists of a bottom box, A, and top B, connected by means of L-shaped posts or bars 0 0, one in each corner.

On one. side of the box A and top B are two hooks,

I) D, to-be inserted in loops on a carriage, to attach the lantern to-the same. a

To the sides of the boxA are attached slotted plates or bars E E, which are bent at their onterjends, formingthe rings or loops G G, which bear against the carriage, acting as bumpers, to prevent any wabbling or rocking motion of the lamp.

The plates or bars E E,'being slotted and attached by means of screws, they can be adjusted to suit any carriage the lantern may be attached to.

The bottom H of the box A has two of its sides turned upward, and is fastened to the box by means of bolts and 'nuts a a passing through the sides of the'box, and these turned-up portions of the bottom. Tlrls is' for the purpose of confining the glass in the lantern, and,-at the same time, be able readily to reso on alternately toone side and the other, to hold the glass in position.

The lamp I is attached in any suitable manner in the bottom H, so that it can be readily removed for lighting, or for other purposes.

The button (l of the usual wick-raising shaft is on the outside provided with a clutch, e, in which fit two pins, it, on a disk,-f.'

This disk is attached to the inner end of a shaft, g, which passes through the corner of one of the posts or bars 0, and is supported by a standard, It, rising from the bottom H within the lantern.

The shaft g has a button, it, on its outer end, and a pin, m, a short distance fromthe disk f1 1 The upper end of the standard It is slotted, to allow the pin m to pass through when the shaft is moved out or in. g

The lamp being, for instance, lighted, and inserted in the bottom H, and it is desired to eitherraise or lower the wick, it can be done without removing the lamp, by turning the shaft g until the pin m passes through the slotin the standard h, when the pins 5 tare readily made to engage with the clutch e, and the desired result accomplished.

When it is necessary to remove the lamp, the shaft- 9 is drawn out until the pin in comes on the outside of the standard h, when it isturned to one side,

so as to be held there, the standard being then between the disk f and the pin m.

The top B of the lantern is constructed in any suitable manner, and provided with abail, J, for carrying 

